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dents lost the week before.
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brought this team backimj
spective,” A&M punter ij
Lechler said.
‘‘Which is that this place I
most special school inthettB
because of the tremendoisH
port of the fans and hows J
family Aggies are.”
i garage will be built usinjr«
used primarily for student^
ason for increasing parking
mild up enough revenue to; : |
’ he said.
able to park and get to the:
e effort, because a shuttle is]
■st Campus Parking Garage:
> once the project is comple-j
iible parking will be available
' garage.
1 “rainbow” aerial pedestrian:
;es Wellborn Road, willbetoml
mrrent [Americans withDisa^
recause the slopes are toogre
said.
estimated to be completed:
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Aggielife
Page 3 • Friday, December 10, 1999
Horseshoes
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mr
and a #2 pencil
udents try anything to gain an academic advantage
BY MELISSA PANTANO
The Battalion
rad Mason, a senior recreation parks and tourism ma
jor, stumbles sleepily across campus to the room
where he will face his first final. Last night, he fell
lep on a pile of books, and learning by osmosis failed
( h, but his lack of preparation does not faze him. Reach-
eiguson said drowsy w,[j nt0 hjg backpack, he produces a secret weapon — his
ttect. every college stud f f kvpencil
1,1 s 10 •A dtreCiiMfoson said the lucky charm has a long history,
idirectly. ;»] a Texas a&M pencil that 1 used for every test
l.vm |n'iM)n iiuollegt sophomore year,” he said. “I used it a couple
neck'd In thesedeatm 0 ftimes and kept passing tests, so I figured that it must
ot , ha PP en ‘ he ^n ' lthe pencil.”
c'cd to enc mirage theirnp|M^ ason sa j t j |-, e |-, as be]^ on t0 t ) ie pencil to provide an ad-
V and at other schdantage with difficult classes.
ike responsibility lor st j|] | iave j t somewhere,” he said. “It’s only like a cou-
Aicoiumg to tneNatv | e i nc hes long now, and it has one of those replacement
oumlation, ,. percent y ■ serS) but I have to hold onto it in case I take a really hard
ents will fall asleep onetiiJ sand need a little luck/ .
ind the wheel. jye^y socks to aimlessly throwing change at the
f eiguson said dnver^are I,, 0 f5 u j r 0SSj students find themselves grasping onto se-
jity blankets in times of chaos.
hile some rely on test-taking instruments, others think
[cles of clothing are the way to success,
obbie Moeller, a freshman business major, said he has
liable piece of intimate apparel that has gotten him
Dugh the years.
“I have the Test Master 2000 boxer shorts,” he said. “I’ve
them since high school, and 1 just wear them, and good
ff happens.”
oeller said his superstitions probably are more psy-
lajor, came up with theide; fiological than anything else.
ontiredesign. . ■"They help me with other stuff besides school,” he
“I wanted to make fc wj. “I don’t know if I’m just lucky, or I just think I’m
lemorable,” hesaid. “Thisp going to do well because I’m wearing the boxers. I just
L ' m the ground forever,sol! link the boxers are a modest way of giving me an excuse
re was appropriate forthep.4being a genius.”
The rest of the pole feat* j Another 1
way students prepare themselves for the
also! Aggielandandthe4c.| reade (j fj na i s slump is keeping a routine to set them-
The 12th Man, the “gig ffi selves up for success,
id a football with the scoff oM
?ar’s A&M-UniversityofTexa$|
all game are represented.
Crow asked friend and room
aslie VanDusen, ajtmioreli
ry education major, to j
mily this year.
VanDusen said she was|
essed with the work and cool
'lieve the passion the
towed toward the project.
“The craftsmanship is aniai
e said. "You would
’opie you who are your M
rve totem poles, let alonedotf
well.”
ble for making the decision
ver if they are too tired to dr::
“I know it isn’t wc
ves, so pull over and
>ad instead of putting ydirii
:hers in danger,” hesaid.
: to victim!
Matt Kemper, a freshman business administration ma
jor, said organization is the key to success.
“I always lay my clothes out the night before a test —
everything down to socks, and I always lay them out in
the order that I will put them on the next morning,” Kem
per said.
Kemper said he has a specific number and a sequence
of doing things that helps him succeed.
“I do everything in threes,” Kemper said. “For athletic
events, I’ll run around the track three times or brush my
teeth three times for luck [before a test]. Three is supposed
to be a lucky number, so I stick with that. Not that I study
three times, but just about everything else.”
Other students’ ways to get through tests do not have
anything to do with the actual testing act.
Jeff Carawan, a senior journalism major, said the best
way to decrease the stress of a test is to avoid binging on
information right before the test is passed out.
“1 never listen to the chatter in the class before I take a
final,” he said, “and I never try to cram in the classroom
before the test.”
Carawan said listening to other students prior to a test
can make people lose faith in themselves.
“Listening to people talking just reminds you of every
thing you don’t know,” Carawan said. “I figure that if you
don’t know the information by the time you walk in the
test, you are pretty much screwed anyway.
“Why sit and psyche yourself out before the test? You
know whether you are prepared or not, last-minute
cramming won’t help any.”
Other students rely on science to get them through tests
and studying.
Kurtiss Schmidt, a senior rangeland ecology and man
agement major, said the best way to ace a test is to listen
to researchers.
“I’ve heard that the best way to take a test is to be in
the same state of mind when you study that you will be in
during the test,” he said. “Somebody told me that research
has shown that if you study half-lit, that should be the way
you take the test, because the information will flow out
better that way.”
PATRIC SCHNEIDER/Thk Battalion
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